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Paratroopa1 posted...

Alas! The last untouched game falls - I really wanted to put every MM5 in the top 50 but I couldn't quite justify it with the competition. Even my least favorite track in this game is still a gem, but there are other tracks in this series that do the odd, playful space vibe even better. I've always wondered what it is about the various themes that are meant to evoke the feeling of 'space' that they all have these bouncy rhythms and weird sharp notes that are meant to imply a sort of 'alien' quality - I've never been sure what the origin of that is. Anyway, it's fun and compositionally sound. I like the C section. I don't have a ton to say about it, it's good.

every megaman 5 song should be in the top 5 that is why it is called "mega man 5"

anyways a thing i have to say about this, whenever I question the "why does space music sound like this" thing, i go back to something that always stuck out to me about a certain gradius interview. Miki Higashino was basically asked "why did you make this ost so atonal and weird" and she said something like "well...it takes place in space---and when i think of space, i think of computers! and when i think of computers i think of irregular rhythms and quartals and angular chord changes and [etc]", which was basically a list of traits of the ost to tron (1982) too. it's a very "inside the computer" sound

i think these sorts of ideas obviously would fit with "computer man" but computers didn't exist yet so they had to put those in the space themes instead
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